SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Reviews

KPI review is showing daily life of performance linked to IOT activities in the Industry 4.0 times

Due to re-planning of tasks , targets would be change in the operation. Follow up of changes and tracking of trend must be more visible with reasons why target is changed and until when old target was valid.

I love the scheduling feature of the reports wherein you can easily schedule reports to be executed on a particular day.

Reports with data more than 1 lakh rows takes a lot of time and even crashes sometimes

I like the drag and drop option at SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence which allows me to move windows and dashboards anywhere. Also, it allows me to fully control the graphs from assigning labels and legends to controlling the layout and format.

There are a few documentation and tutorial online about SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence which makes it hard to learn. There is no web-based version of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence. Also, it is too expensive to buy the software.

At first, the software is looking complicated, but using it very easier after passing an induction

allow exporting data to another tool for further exploitation, good data cleaning and KPI monitoring

easy to set up , handle and customize

the cost of the license is as high as it cant allow small-scale business to buy and use

The Best 5 main modules :

1. Payable Accounts
2.Ledger
3.Cash Management
4.Assets generally Fixed.
5.Receivable Accounts

It has no such least like thing but, takes more time in database updates.

Business Objects has many capabilities, for me, the ease of publication of reports is the most important.

SAP is a large company, if you work for a relatively small company (700 people), then you have to go through a partner. The quality of these partners varies.

It is very easy to use and understand the customers .it is mostly connected RDBS Databases. It is a platform independent and robust tool

Before using this software at least need knowledge of data base, SQL query languages and basic fundamentals. It will take lot of time when software version and patch takes

This is good time management tool with simple user interface

User interface can be modified for more simplicity.

The ease at which the reports can be run and downloaded is very good. The extraction can be done in both pdf and excel depending on the requirement. The reports which have been run also show the specifications used in the reporting for the approver to verify.

The scheduler is not very simple and might require some user guide to understand and schedule the reports. Also, the inbox reports tend to disappear at times and then have to be re-put in inbox.

The publication of certain financial and logistical information is very fast because all the data is available almost in real time.

Management tool requiring a relatively high learning curve

Lots of features and easy to integrate dashboard between departments.

Complexity for non-experienced users, which requires a long learning curve.

For an SAP environment, this is best tool for reporting, since it can be connected effectively with SAP

The connectivity of this tool with non SAP tools is not straight forward or simple

The ability to report out and track expenses

Not really a feature more business side; coding of information

In Business Objects the way you can build Universe and expose that as a self service tool for users to build their own reports gives it a cutting edge compared to other reporting tools. Being a SAP tool the customer support is good and it integrates well with other cloud platforms.

The look and feel is not that great and it cannot match the dashboard features which are present in other reporting tools like for example Tableau.

The speed and ease of using SAP BI in c comfortable format (we use the Excel Inrerface)

Sometime a pre-existing BI report does blow up and it leaves the report without a connection to BI. Report has to be recreated - no recovery.

Easy to use Tools and Data analysis Kits

Need to adopt some dynamic features like Tableau and Power BI

SAP business objects is an easy to learn and use analytical tool especially in the context of self service analytics by end users. One is able to re-use the same query and also share the query with other users as well and modify the query at any given time for customization purposes. It is also fast.

As with any new tool, there is an initial learning curve to get ramped up - however there is fairly good documentation available for this purpose. In addition, need good network bandwidth especially when there are multiple users trying to run queries at the same time

We use SAP Business Objects in conjunction with Crystal Reports to provide web based links for our employees to run on their own within the constraints of the parameters. I like that it is easy to navigate and sort by file name. The organization of information is clear and straightforward and it is easy to customize how you want to see things.

I wish there were options to add certain columns to your view. For example if I want to sort by name or last update, I can, no problem. But if i want to get any details on frequency or last time a user ran a report, i have to either go into the settings or run a report.

Nice ui interface, you dont need to know sql, used in many industries so many developers know it

Many icons and menus make it hard to initially know what to use, some in nuances and bugs

The software is easy to learn and use, variety of transactions and their many different options

That at least twice a month the system have issues (slow system)

This software is excellent to use for data analytics, to create graphs, tables, and overall financial reporting.

The software is locking a really good support team to address user's issues. The 24 hours support is necessary